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The problem situation the study focuses on creates problems in providing a comprehensive entry to the student due to the lack of leveled/degraded reading texts in the teaching of Turkish as a foreign/second language. The method of document analysis scaned literature, the theoretical infrastructure of the study was created by demonstrating the basis of the studies related to the subject. The study first defined the concept of text from a text-scientific point of view and provided information about its use in foreign/second language teaching. After that, the concept of adaptation of the text has been translated into this use. This section explains why the text adaptation process is needed, discussing the theoretical foundations of the text adaptation concept and how and by whom this process can be done. Then in the application section, a text in the experimental type is addressed and adapted to the level A2 according to the principles of structural approach. It was noted that the text to be used in the application has a universal content when chosen, it is interesting and that according to Krashen's 'i+1' assumption, the student contains structures somewhat above the language level. The details of the adjustment process, the processes and reasons made are given in this section of the adjustment process. Then the text used is adjusted to the original form under the created table. This means that the readers can compare the two texts. At the end of the study, the lack of supporting reading materials in the teaching of Turkish as a foreign language was emphasized and it was stated that this situation was an important problem in terms of the transfer of appropriate understandable input to the student. Parallelly, the causes of this lack have been revealed and recommendations have been presented at the point of removal.

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